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00:01:08.000Two GOP senators, Rand Paul of Kentucky, of course, of course, and Tom Tillis of North Carolina, who opposed some of the cuts to future spending in Medicaid in particular.
00:01:19.000But the bill passed 5149 in terms of starting debate on the legislation.
00:01:24.000That means that in all likelihood, this bill is going to come to a vote in the House of Representatives sometime this week.
00:01:31.000President Trump's goal of getting this thing done by July 4th is going to be kept, according to Politico.
00:01:37.000The vote came after a day-long scramble by GOP leaders to win over several Republican senators who were viewed as undecided or who had vowed to block debate over their opposition to pieces of the bill, including an extended negotiating session that unfolded with various senators and Vice President J.D. Vance while the vote was underway.
00:01:52.000Now, again, Ron Johnson, Senator Ron Johnson, he's been a guest on the program of Wisconsin.
00:01:58.000He apparently won a promise of an amendment vote related to the expansion of Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act.
00:02:03.000That proposal would end the 90% federal cost share for new enrollees under that arrangement, which got one of the big aspects of Obamacare.
00:02:12.000Basically, it says that if the states want Obamacare, they're going to pay more for Obamacare.
00:02:16.000Why should the federal government have to subsidize all of that?
00:02:19.000Senate Majority Leader John Thune declined to comment on those concessions, but Johnson suggested that Thune and Trump would support the amendment, which had first been promoted by Florida Senator Rick Scott.
00:02:28.000So there are enough sort of giveaways to the fiscal hawk wing to get Ron Johnson on board.
00:02:34.000Senator Mike Lee of Utah also was part of the huddle, and he told reporters that part of the conversation focused on deficit reduction.
00:02:42.000Now, again, there could theoretically be a blowup before this is all said and done, but President Trump personally intervened Friday and Saturday to shore up the whip count.
00:02:51.000He did aggressively lobby Tom Tillis on Friday night, and then he attacked him publicly, but he lobbied some of the other senators as well.
00:02:59.000Apparently, J.D. Vance interceded after the vote was called to win over Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski, and then he went to work on the other holdouts as well.
00:03:06.000Senator Josh Howley also jumped on board.
00:03:09.000So, again, we'll see what the final result here is.
00:03:13.000However, it looks like the big, beautiful bill is moving toward passage.
00:03:16.000Senator John Kennedy of Louisiana, he said, listen, it's time to vote.
00:05:20.000I think today we finished our 51st meeting on the big, beautiful bill, talking about different perspectives, trying to make sure that it's the very best product for the American people.
00:05:30.000We're going to ensure that we secure our border, that that's not just for now, but we're doing that for generations to come.
00:05:36.000We're going to make sure that the defense capabilities are of the utmost importance and that our warfighter is the best trained, equipped, and ready across the planet.
00:05:44.000I think we have seen over the last several weeks, and this week in particular, how important that is.
00:05:49.000We're going to unleash American energy, Kellyanne.
00:05:52.000We know it's important not only for our economy, but it's also important for national security.
00:05:57.000And then when you look at the tax breaks that we're going to have for everyday hardworking Americans, President Trump has ensured, whether it's no tax on tips or no tax on overtime, that we are putting the American people first.
00:06:09.000We're giving them more of their hard-earned money right back in their pocket.
00:06:13.000And we're going to make significant strides.
00:06:15.000Okay, so again, a lot of this is true.
00:06:18.000And some of the moderates in the House and in the Senate have come around.
00:06:22.000So, of course, have some of the fiscal hawks.
00:06:24.000Mike Lawler, who is a sort of holdout on the bill, given the fact that he's from New York, and a lot of the Congresspeople from New York who are Republican are worried about losing their districts if they do not get salt deductions that are high enough.
00:06:34.000SALT, of course, are state and local tax deductions taken before the federal tax income is actually established.
00:06:41.000He came out in a Saturday interview and said he supported the latest version of the state and local tax deduction in the Senate's mega bill, praising it as a big win.
00:06:48.000He said, negotiation, you've got to know how to define a win and to take yes for an answer.
00:06:52.000The latest Senate bill raises the salt deduction up to $40,000 through 2029.
00:06:56.000Now, again, these are policies I don't like.
00:06:58.000I don't like the state and local tax deduction.
00:07:01.000I think it's insane that the taxpayers of Florida who do not pay a state income tax are supposed to subsidize people who live in New York and California so that the state of New York or the state of California can continue to maintain these massively high taxes on their own citizens.
00:07:15.000With that said, when you make a big piece of legislation, it is a game of horse trading and swapping and all the rest.
00:07:22.000And it's actually gotten worse since the death of so-called earmarks.
00:07:26.000So earmarks were all those things everybody hated where a senator would have a bridge named after him in a federal bill.
00:07:31.000It was like, ah, that's super corrupt.
00:07:36.000Everybody in Congress has to show their district they brought home the bacon.
00:07:39.000So it either comes home in the form of a post office named after them or it comes in the form of a gigantic provision that provides for state and local tax deductions.
00:07:48.000I would much rather have the post office named for Mike Lawler in his local district than have this gigantic state and local tax deduction in the state of New York.
00:07:54.000But they got rid of earmarks and thus you are stuck with actually bigger spending in many ways than you would have had if you just had the sort of Christmas tree where people put ornaments on the Christmas tree.
00:08:03.000And meanwhile, Josh Hawley, who was a holdout on the big, beautiful bill, he said on Saturday that he would back the signature legislation.
00:08:10.000He said, I'm going to vote yes on the bill.
00:08:12.000He said he was satisfied by a change that would help delay implementing changes to the provider tax language, which most states use to help cover Medicaid costs.
00:08:20.000He said he was also encouraged by an increase in the rural hospital fund, which means his state will get more Medicaid funding for the next four years.
00:08:27.000So again, much of the sort of solve here was bigger spending in certain areas.
00:08:31.000Now, the place that really did get slapped was green energy.
00:08:35.000And this led Elon Musk to come out and condemn the bill again.
00:08:38.000Quote, the latest Senate draft bill will destroy millions of jobs in America and cause immense strategic harm to our country.
00:08:44.000He called it utterly insane and destructive.
00:08:46.000It gave handouts to industries of the past while severely damaging industries of the future.
00:08:51.000Now, again, one of the problems for Elon and for many of the people in sort of the tech space in the bill is that the bill gets rid of a lot of tax subsidies for electric vehicles.
00:09:01.000It does provide certain tax subsidies for the coal industry.
00:09:04.000It also apparently provides a sort of excise tax on wind farms and solar cells past 2027.
00:09:12.000So the bill is, in fact, a slap against green energy.
00:09:25.000Again, the horse trading will continue.
00:09:26.000There will be many more changes before we reach the final version of this bill, because once it passes the Senate, the House has already passed its own version.
00:09:33.000Then they have to go to reconciliation.
00:09:36.000I'm sure they're going to be negotiating all through the night, many times this week, until this thing actually gets passed.
00:09:43.000But if the bill were not to pass, you would see the severe possibility of a true economic downturn.
00:09:49.000Because the reality is that there are some economic data suggesting that a downturn may be headed for us anyway.
00:09:55.000And there's some weakening economic data, even despite the fact that the Dow Jones Industrial Average is hitting all-time highs right now, that it's recovering, according to the Wall Street Journal.
00:10:05.000Investors may not think the economy is taking off, but they're probably relieved the worst case scenarios feared in recent months have not yet come to pass.
00:10:11.000Trump's tariffs, deportations, and cuts to the federal bureaucracy have bent the economy, but they haven't broken it.
00:10:16.000The S ⁇ P 500 plummeted 19% from its previous high in February to its 2025 low on April 8th.
00:10:22.000Behind that drop, fears that Trump's threatened tariffs of as high as 145% on China and 50% on other major trading partners would send inflation and interest rates up, sap business and consumer confidence, and spark a recession.
00:10:34.000Instead, President Trump, of course, significantly dialed back a lot of those gigantic tariffs.
00:10:39.000In recent months, business confidence fell amid those tariff threats, but businesses kept investing in equipment, factories, and technology.
00:10:47.000Jason Furman, Harvard economics professor who advised Obama, said the macroeconomy is doing decently.
00:10:52.000He says the market is more confident that Trump will back off if necessary.
00:10:55.000Now, again, I've said this before, President Trump lives in the world of reality, and so the chances were pretty strong that he was going to eventually back off some of this tariff war as the effect started to be felt.
00:11:06.000And President Trump would love nothing better than for the Federal Reserve to lower the interest rates.
00:11:10.000That's only going to happen if he backs off a lot of the tariff talk that he has been doing.
00:11:14.000All right, coming up, big victories for President Trump and conservatives at the Supreme Court.
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00:13:23.000The last thing President Trump wants or needs is an economic downturn.
00:13:26.000The big, beautiful bill will provide a sense of stasis and calm to the markets that has been lacking for the past several months.
00:13:34.000So that's a big victory for President Trump.
00:13:36.000It's a huge victory for Senate Majority Leader Thune.
00:13:39.000If the Republicans are able to cobble together a majority in a Senate where they have only 53 seats and in a House where they have a majority by a couple of seats, that is indeed a piece of tremendous legislative leisure domain by both Speaker of the House Johnson and Senate Majority Leader Thun.
00:13:54.000President Trump gets another huge victory.
00:13:57.000Speaking of huge victories, on Friday, the Supreme Court of the United States issued three separate rulings, all of which benefit people who are conservative, one of which benefits the Trump administration in particular.
00:14:06.000So the most hotly covered of these particular opinions is Trump versus CASA Inc.
00:14:13.000This is a case connected with the executive order that President Trump issued immediately upon entering office, suggesting that the executive branch should no longer recognize quote-unquote birthright citizenship for people who do not have at least one parent who's an American citizen.
00:14:29.000So the basic idea is that if you come across the border illegally with your spouse and then you drop a baby in the United States, that baby should no longer be considered a citizen.
00:14:39.000One is the meaning of birthright citizenship.
00:14:42.000And that is an interesting, fascinating argument about the meaning of the clause in the 14th Amendment, Clause 1, and Section 201 of the Nationality Act of 1940, which suggests that you have to be subject to the jurisdiction thereof in order to be a citizen of the United States.
00:15:00.000So if you're a Mexican citizen and you are subject to the jurisdiction of Mexico, but you're here illegally and therefore not subject to the jurisdiction of American law in the same way as a citizen, really, you should not be treated as a citizen and neither should the baby that you have in the United States.
00:15:13.000That's the case made by the Trump administration.
00:15:16.000On the other side of the ledger, people will argue that since essentially the beginning of the 20th century, birthright citizenship has been the predicate law for immigrants coming to the United States ever since a Supreme Court case called Wam Kim Ark.
00:15:31.000But that particular matter was put to the side in this case.
00:15:34.000The real question was whether a district court judge can issue a nationwide injunction to stop the implementation of the executive order.
00:15:42.000So here the question is, one that we've seen over and over and over again.
00:15:46.000That question is, can a district court judge say based on a single case, out of California or New York or Hawaii, that all across the country, an executive order or a piece of legislation cannot go into effect based on a single district court judge somewhere out there?
00:16:02.000And the answer the court found is absolutely not.
00:16:05.000You cannot have individual district court judges moving beyond the scope of their authority in order to declare nationwide injunctions.
00:16:13.000Essentially, if you come to a district court judge and you say this law has violated my rights, the district court can put an injunction on the federal government with regard to you.
00:16:22.000But it can't put an injunction on everyone across the entire land vis-a-vis this law.
00:16:28.000The opinion was delivered by Amy Coney Barrett.
00:16:30.000So first of all, I'd like to point out that all the people who are ripping on Leonard Leo of the Federalist Society, full disclosure, I was a member of the Federalist Society when I was in law school because it was the conservative institution and is the conservative institution for law students and legal professionals.
00:16:46.000People who are ripping on Leonard Leo for suggesting Amy Coney Barrett for the Supreme Court of the United States, let me just point out that just because she doesn't vote the way you want on every single case does not make her David Souter.
00:17:17.000Well, because there is no actual predicate to this.
00:17:20.000Congress has never granted federal courts the authority to universally enjoin the enforcement of an executive or legislative policy, as she says, in this opinion.
00:17:29.000She says the government is likely to succeed on the merits of its argument regarding the scope of relief.
00:17:34.000A universal injunction can only be justified as an exercise of equitable authority, but Congress has never granted federal courts that sort of power.
00:17:44.000The Judiciary Act of 1789 endowed federal courts with jurisdiction over all suits in equity.
00:17:49.000And still today, the statute is what authorizes the federal courts to issue equitable remedies.
00:17:53.000But that is not total equitable authority.
00:17:57.000So, in other words, they would have to have special delegated authority.
00:18:00.000Quote, neither the universal injunction nor any analogous form of relief was available in the High Court of Chancery in England at the time of the founding.
00:18:08.000Equity offered a mechanism for the crown to secure justice where it would not be secured by ordinary and existing processes of law.
00:18:15.000But that never extended to the idea of gigantic nationwide injunctions, even going all the way back to the founding era.
00:18:23.000As Justice Barrett points out in a 6-3 majority for the court, that there is no long-standing record of universal nationwide injunctions being issued by courts.
00:18:34.000Quote, the universal injunction was conspicuously non-existent for most of our nation's history.
00:18:39.000Its absence from 18th and 19th century equity practice settles the question of judicial authority.
00:18:44.000That the absence continued into the 20th century renders any claim of historical pedigree still more implausible.
00:18:50.000Even during the deluge of constitutional litigation that occurred in the wake of ex parte young throughout the Lochner era at the dawn of the New Deal, universal injunctions were nowhere to be found.
00:19:01.000So, as Justice Barrett points out, there is no serious history of a nationwide injunction issued by a district court.
00:19:08.000You cannot just have one judge in Los Angeles, California issue an injunction on all national law based on a singular case brought before the court.
00:19:21.000So there is a rather hilarious portion of this opinion, and that is where Justice Barrett, as well as the rest of the court, absolutely rips into Justice Katanji Brown Jackson, who has seized the high ground as the worst member of the court.
00:19:38.000So I thought it was Sonia Sotomayor by a long shot.
00:19:40.000Sonia Sotsumayor is an awful justice, truly dumb.
00:19:45.000Elena Kagan, who is dean of the Harvard Law School and I was there, is a smart person with whom I disagree.
00:19:49.000Justice Sotomayor has evidenced zero smarts.
00:19:52.000Justice Katanji Brown Jackson has evidenced not only zero smarts, but zero actual principles.
00:19:58.000So this opinion just rips apart Justice Katanji Brown Jackson's dissent, which honestly, it sounds like it was written by a first-year law school student who is familiar with online memory, but not with law.
00:20:10.000The opinion says, Justice Jackson chooses a startling line of attack that is tethered neither to any sources, nor frankly, any doctrine whatsoever.
00:20:19.000Waving away attentions and limits on judicial power as a mind-numbingly technical query, she offers a vision of the judicial role that would make even the most ardent defender of judicial supremacy blush.
00:20:30.000In her telling, the fundamental role of courts is to order everyone to follow the law full stop.
00:20:36.000And she warns, if courts lack the power to require the executive to adhere to law universally, courts will leave a gash in the basic tenets of our founding charter that could turn out to be a mortal wound.
00:20:45.000Rhetoric aside, says the opinion, Justice Jackson's position is difficult to pin down.
00:20:50.000She might be arguing that universal injunctions are appropriate, even required, whenever the defendant is part of the executive branch.
00:20:55.000If so, her position goes far beyond the mainstream defense of universal injunctions.
00:21:00.000At best as we can tell, though, her argument is more extreme still because its logic does not depend on the entry of a universal injunction.
00:21:06.000Justice Jackson appears to believe the reasoning behind any court order demands universal adherence, at least where the executive is concerned.
00:21:13.000In her law-declaring vision of the judicial function, a district court's opinion is not just persuasive, but has the legal force of a judgment.
00:21:20.000Once a single district court deems executive conduct unlawful, it has stated what the law requires, and the executive must conform to that view, ceasing its enforcement of the law against anyone, anywhere.
00:21:31.000We will not dwell on Justice Jackson's argument, says Justice Barrett, which is at odds with more than two centuries' worth of precedent, not to mention the Constitution itself.
00:21:39.000Justice Jackson decries an imperial executive while embracing an imperial judiciary.
00:21:44.000No one disputes the executive has a duty to follow the law, but the judiciary does not have unbridled authority to enforce this obligation.
00:21:50.000In fact, sometimes the law prohibits the judiciary from doing so.
00:21:57.000What a slap that is, just for the lawyers and the crap.
00:21:59.000Marbury versus Madison is like the number one constitutional law case because it establishes the idea of Supreme Court judicial oversight of legislative action or executive action.
00:22:10.000That is the idea of Marbury versus Madison.
00:22:13.000But what it found was that James Madison, who was then president, had violated the law, but it also held that the court couldn't actually issue a writ of mandamus ordering him to follow it.
00:22:33.000If you don't know Marbury versus Madison, you just don't know what the hell you're talking about is basically the idea here.
00:22:39.000What a brutal put down by the majority of the court against Justice Jackson.
00:22:44.000And again, her dissent is indeed quite astonishing.
00:22:49.000Not only is it laden with terrible arguments, but it is written with actual means.
00:22:55.000I mean, she actually says at one point, as I understand the concern, in this clash over the respective powers of two coordinate branches of government, the majority sees a power grab, but not by a presumably lawless executive choosing to act in a manner that flouts the plain text of the Constitution.
00:23:08.000Instead, the majority, the power-hungry actors are wait for it, the district courts.
00:23:15.000Like, can I just point out, putting wait for it in a Supreme Court opinion like that between two ellipses, you're not writing for X.com, Justice Jackson.
00:23:25.000You're making a ridiculous argument, but you're arguing it in the worst possible way also.
00:23:30.000So just a brutal fate for Justice Jackson in that particular case.
00:23:35.000Well, it means that the president of the United States can now move forward with the implementation of his executive orders until the Supreme Court weighs in on the actual law at issue for the whole country, which is how the appellate courts work.
00:23:48.000So in other words, this does not mean that President Trump can now simply expel all kids who are born of illegal immigrant parents.
00:23:54.000That's going to be appealed all the way up to the Supreme Court.
00:23:56.000It'll be ruled on in October, and the court will probably find, I would imagine, by maybe a vote to seven to two or six to three, that actually birthright citizenship is what the Constitution orders, or at least what precedent requires.
00:24:07.000It'd be kind of shocking if the Supreme Court found the other way, regardless of my feelings about the issue.
00:24:12.000And for the record, I think that actually birthright citizenship is not mandated by the Constitution.
00:24:17.000President Trump, for his part, put out a statement on truth social, quote, giant win in the U.S. Supreme Court.
00:24:21.000Even the birthright citizenship hoax has been indirectly hit hard.
00:24:24.000It had to do with the babies of slaves, same year, not the scamming of our immigration process.
00:24:28.000What he means by that is that birthright citizenship is not what is meant by the 14th Amendment.
00:24:33.000When it says that people who are born or naturalized in the United States or subject to the jurisdiction thereof are citizens of the United States, he means correctly that enslaved people are citizens.
00:24:45.000That's what the 14th Amendment was designed to do.
00:24:47.000Congratulations to Attorney General Pamboni, Solicitor General John Tower, and the entire DOJ.
00:24:52.000Coming up, another big victory for President Trump at the Supreme Court.
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00:27:00.000Sure is President Trump listing off some of the policies he would now be pushing at a press conference on Friday.
00:27:06.000Some of the cases we're talking about would be ending birthright citizenship, which now comes to the fore.
00:27:13.000That was meant for the babies of slaves.
00:27:15.000It wasn't meant for people trying to scam the system and come into the country on a vacation.
00:27:21.000This was, in fact, it was the same date, the exact same date, the end of the Civil War.
00:27:25.000It was meant for the babies of slaves, and it's so clean and so obvious.
00:27:29.000But this lets us go there and finally win that case because hundreds of thousands of people are pouring into our country under birthright citizenship, and it wasn't meant for that reason.
00:27:40.000It was meant for the babies of slaves.
00:27:43.000So thanks to this decision, we can now promptly file to proceed with these numerous policies and those that have been wrongly enjoined on a nationwide basis, including birthright citizenship, ending sanctuary city funding, suspending refugee resettlement, freezing unnecessary funding, stopping federal taxpayers from paying for transgender surgeries, and numerous other priorities of the American people.
00:29:35.000Then you want to go back and look at your suppositions.
00:29:38.000But sometimes the result is certainly not maybe one you would have liked, and maybe it's one that seems pretty surprising.
00:29:47.000But you do have to keep in mind it's not your job to decide what the right result should look like.
00:29:52.000It's your job to do the legal analysis to the best you can.
00:29:56.000If it leads to some extraordinarily improbable result, then you want to go back and take another look at it.
00:30:01.000But I don't start from what the result looks like and go backwards.
00:30:10.000So that is the way that you're supposed to approach the law.
00:30:12.000That obviously is not true for many people on the left side of the bench.
00:30:14.000Scott Jennings over on CNN, who does a great job.
00:30:17.000He actually quoted Elena Kagan, who voted the other way on this particular case from 2022 about nationwide injunctions, in which she felt precisely the opposite when it was a non-left-wing court holding up an action of Joe Biden.
00:30:29.000I was trying to sort out my feelings on this matter, and I came up with a quote from a very smart lawyer, and I just want to quote it because I think she was right when she said it.
00:30:38.000It just can't be right that one district judge can stop a nationwide policy in its tracks.
00:30:43.000Justice Elena Kagan in 2022 said that, of course, when we had a Democratic president.
00:30:49.000Now, she voted against the decision on Friday.
00:30:52.000It just goes to show you that some of these folks really are hacks.
00:30:55.000Okay, now, again, he is totally right about this.
00:30:58.000Members of the media, of course, went insane.
00:30:59.000They've been declaring that imperial presidency is the thing since Trump.
00:31:28.000OSHA to cram down a vaccine on 80 million Americans.
00:31:33.000So don't lecture me now about how now we have a king.
00:31:35.000All the same people who are complaining about Donald Trump now were very happy when Joe Biden was using executive authority to illegally alleviate student loans.
00:31:44.000Here's CNN's Gretchen Carlson, however, doing this routine.
00:31:47.000The first thing that came to mind today to me was that we may now have a king.
00:31:52.000This is so different from how the separation of powers have worked in this nation for decades and decades.
00:31:58.000So look, big picture, yes, huge win for Trump.
00:32:01.000But something I want to bring up tonight is that I believe this will change the way that politicking works in America.
00:32:08.000Because this won't just be for President Trump.
00:32:10.000And if a Democrat would become president in three and a half years, they would be given this same power.
00:32:16.000So this will change the way in which we politic in America, I believe, unless Congress steps in and supersedes this.
00:32:24.000So, I mean, again, that's an insane statement.
00:32:28.000This is not the way policy, this is literally Always how policy has worked.
00:32:31.000If you think that there's any president in American history who would have sat by while a district court judge simply annulled presidential edicts across the entire land, you're out of your mind.
00:32:43.000Meanwhile, Chen Saki says, Well, you know, the only reason the courts are even issuing these injunctions is because Trump is dictatorial.
00:32:48.000Or maybe the reason they're issuing these injunctions is because many of these judges in district courts in left-leaning areas are of the political left, maybe.
00:32:58.000So the only institutional bulwark against Trump's autocratic impulses has been the third branch of government, the courts.
00:33:05.000And as Trump has pushed the limits of his power, the courts have had to check him over and over and over again, largely the lower courts, issuing nationwide injunctions to halt his executive orders as they decide what authority he actually has under the Constitution.
00:33:22.000In fact, Trump's actions have been so extreme, the courts have had to use that power to stop him more than any other president in modern history.
00:33:32.000I'm sorry, just because the courts are doing it more to Trump does not mean that Trump is more dictatorial.
00:33:37.000It might mean that the courts are trying to seize more power.
00:33:40.000MSNBC's Ellie Mistel, who for some reason is the legal analyst over there, he and Ali Velshi decided to talk about what if Trump wanted to murder you?
00:33:59.000Imagine that he and Stephen Miller release an entire policy explaining about how they can murder Canadian journalists who are working in America because they're taking the jobs from real American journalists, right?
00:34:54.000And the court's, well, I can't help you because Allie Velshi is the one who sued.
00:34:58.000So Pat Kiernan, if you don't want to be murdered, you have to launch your entire own lawsuit in the Southern District of New York again to make sure that Donald Trump doesn't murder you.
00:35:11.000So first of all, if President Trump were to create an executive order to murder actual journalists, the Supreme Court would immediately take that up immediately.
00:35:22.000There is an acceleratory process by which the Supreme Court can take up these cases very quickly.
00:35:26.000It would be struck down by the Supreme Court.
00:35:29.000I love that they have to go to the worst that would happen here is President Trump might want to murder everyone.
00:35:33.000And so everyone would have to bring an individual lawsuit, but the Supreme Court would never take it up.
00:35:36.000They would just remain what ridiculous speculative nonsense.
00:35:40.000Because the actual reality is that the other way is that any district court anywhere in America can simply invalidate a presidential action for the entirety of America.
00:35:57.000In a second, we'll get to the socialist takeover of New York and, you know, some bad history associated with this sort of thing.
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00:38:12.000Meanwhile, case number two, the Supreme Court ruled in a case called Mahmoud versus Taylor that parents have the right under the First Amendment freedom of religion to opt their kids out from classes, particularly for youngsters, that involve indoctrination into LGBTQ plus minus divided by sign propaganda.
00:38:28.000The opinion here written by Justice Samuel Alito, again, a 6-3 decision.
00:38:34.000And basically, what he finds here is that parents have shown they are entitled to a preliminary injunction.
00:38:39.000Again, there can be an injunction from the top level from the Supreme Court.
00:38:43.000A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses a very real threat of undermining the religious beliefs and practices that parents wish to instill.
00:38:52.000And a government cannot condition the benefit of free public education on parents' acceptance of such instruction.
00:38:57.000So this particular case, Montgomery County, Small children were being referred to particular books and classes on transgenderism and same-sex marriage that were designed to indoctrinate in a set of values.
00:39:11.000And the opinion quotes from these books: there's one called Prince and Knight, which quote tells the story of a coming-of-age prince whose parents wish to match him with a kind and worthy bride.
00:39:19.000After meeting with many ladies, the prince tells his parents he is looking for something different in a partner by his side.
00:39:23.000And later, the prince falls into the embrace of a knight after the two finish battling a fearsome dragon.
00:39:28.000And then the entire kingdom applauds on the two men's wedding day.
00:39:32.000And then there's another book called Love Violet, which is about a young girl named Violet who has a crush on her female classmate, Mira.
00:39:39.000And the girls end up together, of course.
00:39:42.000And then there's books on transgenderism and all the rest.
00:39:45.000And basically, the board contends that they must teach kids this stuff without telling parents and without giving parents an opt-out.
00:39:54.000The board provided teachers with a guidance document suggesting particular responses to inquiries by parents according to the opinion.
00:39:59.000For example, if a parent were to ask whether the school was attempting to teach a child to reject the values taught at home, teachers were encouraged to respond, the quote, teaching about LGBTQ plus is not about making students think a certain way.
00:40:10.000It is to show that there is no one right or normal way to be.
00:40:14.000But that, of course, is a form of indoctrination because, of course, the left believes that there is a right way to be, which is to be on the left wing.
00:40:22.000And religious parents believe there's a right way to be, and that is to be religious.
00:40:25.000You're going to have to pick a set of values.
00:40:27.000There is no apolitical when it comes to these sorts of questions.
00:40:40.000Instead, they decided that they basically needed to indoctrinate the kids.
00:40:44.000And so the court found, no, this is a violation clearly of parental rights.
00:40:49.000Parents are not forced to turn their kids over to the state so that those kids can be indoctrinated in left-wing social policies.
00:40:56.000At its heart, says Samuel Alito, the free exercise clause of the First Amendment protects the ability of those who hold religious beliefs of all kinds to live out their faiths in daily life through the performance of religious acts.
00:41:07.000And for many people of faith across the country, there are few religious acts more important than the religious education of their children.
00:41:14.000In light of the record before us, says the court, we hold the board's introduction to the LGBTQ plus minus divided by assigned inclusive storybooks, combined with its decision to withhold notice to parents and to forbid opt-outs, substantially interferes with the religious development of their children.
00:41:32.000Naturally, Justice Sotomayor dissents, and she suggests that, well, this could mean that you can opt out your kid from teaching about evolution.
00:41:40.000Well, no, evolution is a scientific theory.
00:41:46.000If you were to suggest that evolution means that human beings are purely animals with no moral obligations, that would be religious indoctrination.
00:41:54.000Teaching kids the theory of evolution is a different thing.
00:41:57.000In the same way, if you were to teach public school kids that the law of the land is men can marry men and women can marry women, that would not actually be a violation of religious freedom.
00:42:05.000It would be a violation of religious freedom if you started talking about the morality of that particular type of relationship.
00:42:13.000Again, this is something that the court makes absolutely clear.
00:42:17.000Justice Sotomayor, of course, relies on the evolution canard in order to suggest that if you oppose same-sex marriage, then you're basically a new earther and that everything, you're basically a religious fundamentalist, which, of course, is not remotely the case.
00:42:30.000You can be anti-same-sex marriage just based on natural law teaching.
00:42:35.000Essentially, what the left opposes here in the end is parents having control of their own kids.
00:42:42.000As Matt Barnum writes over at the Wall Street Journal, the ruling says parents can generally opt out of instruction that contradicts a child's religious upbringing.
00:42:51.000It marks another step toward putting parents in charge of determining what their kids are exposed to in school.
00:42:56.000Eric Baxter, lawyer for the Beckett Fund, says public schools are not an instrument of the state to force children into conformity.
00:43:05.000Naturally, left-wingers say that this is weaponizing against teachers.
00:43:09.000Well, teachers are not supposed to be opposed to the agenda of parents.
00:43:12.000They're supposed to have the same agenda.
00:43:14.000The whole reason why this has become an issue is because teachers' unions and teachers have decided, in many cases, that they are more important than parents and they get to treat the kids as their laboratory experiments in the morality they wish to purvey.
00:43:29.000Case number three, another 6-3 decision.
00:43:32.000This one holds in Free Speech Coalition versus Paxton, that actually the state of Texas can put age restrictions, age verification restrictions on websites.
00:43:40.000Now, again, it is kind of amazing that this ever had to go to the Supreme Court.
00:43:45.000Basically, a bunch of libertarians and companies said that it was a violation of free speech to suggest that there be a window saying that you have to pledge that you are 18 years old and we have to verify via ID that you're 18 years old before you can access.
00:44:00.000And Justice Thomas says, no, that's ridiculous.
00:44:04.000He says, to determine whether a law that regulates speech violates the First Amendment, we must consider both the nature of the burden imposed by the law and the nature of the speech at issue.
00:44:12.000Our precedents distinguish between two types of restrictions on protected speech, content-based laws and content-neutral laws.
00:44:18.000Content-neutral laws are subject to an intermediate level of scrutiny.
00:44:22.000Not all speech is protected, including obscenity, defamation, fraud, incitement, and speech integral to criminal conduct.
00:44:30.000History, tradition, and precedent, says Justice Thomas, recognize states have two distinct powers to address obscenity.
00:44:35.000They may proscribe outright speech that is obscene to the public at large, and they may prevent children from accessing speech that is obscene to children.
00:44:43.000Now, again, the left-wing view of this is that it is a deep and abiding violation of free speech to say that you have to verify the age of people who are accessing online.
00:44:53.000The importance of President Trump having one in 2016, astonishing, because the court would be ruling the opposite way on all of these questions if Hillary Clinton had been president of the United States starting in January of 2017.
00:45:05.000Okay, meanwhile, the other big continuing story of politics in the United States, of course, is the impending election of Zoran Mamdani as mayor of New York City.
00:45:16.000So Zoran Mamdani, he continues to be as radical as it is possible to be.
00:45:25.000He is effectively communistic in his approach to the markets.
00:45:29.000He is, in fact, racist against white people.
00:45:31.000And there's no other way to read the agenda that he has spelled out publicly.
00:45:36.000And of course, he's doing all of this as a sort of revolution against Trump, of course.
00:45:40.000Here is Armam Dani over the weekend suggesting that he is Trump's worst nightmare.
00:45:44.000I am Donald Trump's worst nightmare as a progressive Muslim immigrant who actually fights for the things that I believe in.
00:45:50.000And the difference between myself and Andrew Cuomo is that my campaign is not funded by the very billionaires who put Donald Trump in D.C. I don't have to pick up the phone from Bill Ackman or Ken Langone.
00:46:01.000I have to pick up the phone for the more than 20,000 New Yorkers who contributed an average donation of about $80 to break fundraising records and put our campaign in second place.
00:46:10.000Okay, so that was, of course, from a little bit earlier in the campaign.
00:46:12.000Now he's the nominee for the Democratic Party.
00:46:14.000He's asked by CNN, what are your feelings about capitalism?
00:46:21.000No, I have many critiques of capitalism.
00:46:23.000And I think ultimately the definition for me of why I call myself a Democratic socialist is the words of Dr. King decades ago.
00:46:31.000He said, call it democracy or call it democratic socialism.
00:46:34.000There must be a better distribution of wealth for all of God's children in this country.
00:46:38.000And that's what I'm focused on is dignity and taking on income inequality.
00:46:42.000And for too long, politicians have pretended that we're spectators to that crisis of affordability.
00:46:47.000We're actually actors and we have the choice to exacerbate it like Mayor Adams has done or to respond to it and resolve it like I'm planning to do.
00:46:56.000He's in the greatest financial center in the history of the world in New York City and he does not like capitalism.
00:47:01.000That would seem to be a bit of a warning flag, you might think, especially given the fact he's a career useless person.
00:47:06.000He's a 33-year-old who's never held a solid job a day in his life until he's going to become mayor of the biggest city in the country and a financial center of the West.
00:47:16.000He grew up in the home of a radical anti-colonialist, in scare quotes, professor at Columbia University who's sympathetic to every form of radicalism and an Indian American mother who made radical left-wing films in Hollywood.
00:47:35.000Rich, privileged, as left-wing as possible, became a citizen rather late in life, and now is running for mayor of New York on the platform of I hate capitalism and I hate Donald Trump.
00:47:47.000According to the New York Post, New York City mayoral candidate Zorn Mamzani wants to hike property taxes for quote richer and whiter neighborhoods.
00:47:56.000It says that in his campaign platform, quote, shift the tax burden from overtaxed homeowners in the outer boroughs to more expensive homes in richer and whiter neighborhoods.
00:48:05.000And now that's just plain racist and also a violation of the Civil Rights Act.
00:48:08.000You're not allowed to use the law to discriminate against people on the basis of their race, obviously.
00:48:16.000Pretty astonishing that he is saying that sort of stuff out loud.
00:48:20.000But again, he can say all of this sort of stuff because being a radical with the college-educated white liberal base is the feature, not the bug.
00:48:29.000And there's so many people who are rational who are hearing all this and they're like, wait a second, how is this guy going to win?
00:48:33.000The answer is he's going to win because of this.
00:48:36.000Because the virtue signaling on the left is just that strong.
00:48:44.000They're going to elect a guy who literally said that violence is an artificial construction.
00:48:49.000Here he was not all that long ago talking about violence while he was promoting defunding of the police.
00:48:55.000Oftentimes we've even found as legislators when we go into these courts, the term violent crime is even used when people are stealing packages.
00:49:03.000Violent crime is even used when people are accused of burglary and there happens to be a housing unit in that same dwelling.
00:49:09.000So violence is an artificial construction.
00:49:12.000We have to be very clear what is happening here with these district attorneys.
00:49:29.000Well, this is leading the cops to say every cop in the city is going to leave.
00:49:33.000According to the New York Post, a New York City led by Zoran Mamtani will mean a two-pronged breakdown of public safety, crime spiraling out of control, and NYPD officers leaving en masse, according to experts and veteran cops.
00:49:46.000They believe the U-turn during the final weeks of his primary campaign, away from defunding the police, was just a craven political move to score votes with undecided voters.
00:49:53.000Scott Monroe, president of the NYPD Detectives Endowment Association, said, quote, the city would be totally unsafe for people who live here.
00:49:59.000I go to bed and worry about the phone ringing.
00:50:00.000I'm worried about my members getting killed.
00:50:02.000I don't want to plan any funerals, he added.
00:50:04.000If you put a guy like him in there, our people are going to get hurt.
00:50:28.000And that's demonstrated by how he was getting his support, which was partially out of the state of New York, largely from groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations.
00:50:36.000He's receiving support from apparently Linda Sarasour, a terrorist supporter.
00:50:40.000According to justthenews.com, Jerry Dunlevy writing, Zora Mandani's relationship with Sarsour went largely unremarked during the primary race for City Hall, even though he campaigned alongside her and she called him her friend.
00:50:52.000Apparently, he embraced a nearly decade-long association with Sarsour as he rose from activist to New York state assemblymen and now the Democrat Party's nominee to run America's largest city.
00:51:01.000Their views on the Jewish state, law enforcement, and far-left policies have been closely aligned.
00:51:06.000Literally the day after October 7th, he tweeted, peace can only begin by ending the occupation and dismantling apartheid.
00:51:17.000He is a radical, and the radicalism is the thing that people like about him in New York City.
00:51:24.000By October 13th, he was saying that Israel was, quote, on the brink of genocide, and he was arrested while protesting Israel, not Hamas, of course.
00:51:30.000And now he's pledging that if Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Etanyahu comes to New York, he will try to arrest him.
00:51:35.000He co-founded the Bodouin College Chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine, a group that instructed its chapters on October 8th to celebrate a historic win for the Palestinian resistance.
00:51:46.000He expressed his love for the Holy Land Five.
00:51:49.000Those were the leaders of the Holy Land Foundation convicted in 2008 for fundraising for Hamas.
00:51:59.000Both of his parents have sided with the Columbia protest encampment, of course.
00:52:05.000And naturally, this means that Mamzani has earned at least a hat tip from the horseshoe theory, right?
00:52:10.000They say they don't agree with his policies, but they do like that he hates Israel.
00:52:14.000Is it because people are so desperate for government-owned grocery stores or love socialism or love foreign-born midwits running their cities?
00:53:10.000Again, saying that you oppose his agenda and then praising him for talking about economics as a communist is pretty incredible.
00:53:15.000But again, the horseshoe theory there is all about the fact that Mamdani hates Israel.
00:53:19.000And so, of course, do some of the people that you just saw on your screen, which is why they've been expressing so much support for all of the opponents of Israel that they can find on their shows.
00:53:30.000And that's kind of an amazing horseshoe theory thing happening right there, because that's not actually what Mamdani said.
00:53:34.000If you actually go back and watch the debate, he didn't say, I don't want to focus on the Middle East.
00:53:38.000I just want to focus on what's happening here.
00:53:39.000He literally said he believes in the disestablishment of Israel as a Jewish state.
00:53:42.000That's what he actually said during the debate.
00:53:45.000So that's a complete mischaracterization in order to defend Mamdani, because Mamdani is, of course, a rabid Jew hater, a full-scale anti-Semite who supports terrorism.
00:53:55.000And this does say something about the radical left.
00:53:58.000The anti-Americanism, the anti-capitalism, the anti-Israel, the anti-Jewish of it, they are all linked.
00:54:13.000The Omni cause exists because of its omni-opponent.
00:54:16.000And the omni-opponent is the system, capitalism, free markets, private property, free speech, strong foreign policy in the face of nefarious and evil enemies.
00:54:32.000Traditional values like church or synagogue.
00:54:35.000Those are the things these people oppose.
00:54:37.000And you saw them in Living Color in Glastonbury over the weekend.
00:54:42.000So Glastonbury is apparently a giant music festival that happens in the UK broadcast on the BBC.
00:54:49.000And at this gigantic music festival in Glastonbury, there was a person that I had never heard of, who you also probably have never heard of, calls himself Bob Vylan, right, as opposed to Bob Dylan.
00:55:03.000And this person got up in advance of a band called Knecap, which has, of course, gone out and campaigned against Israel and talked about how evil Israel is.
00:55:11.000And he decided that he was just going to call for the death of IDF soldiers.
00:55:14.000And also, he was going to shout about how the West should essentially fall.
00:55:18.000Here's what he had to say, shouting at a gigantic crowd of people flying flags for Palestinians, terrorist groups, and all the rest.
00:55:27.000These are the people the West has imported and then trained their own children to follow.
00:56:10.000Palestine must be, will be, inshallah, it will be free.
00:56:15.000So I'm just going to point out, Hamas is not going to attack that music festival, not like the Nova Music Festival, because all of the Hamas stands are in the crowd at this one.
00:57:13.000It is hatred for the civilization that has granted them all of their power, all of their economic might, all of their privileges, all of their free speech.
00:57:22.000And that, of course, is combined with the reason why they hate Israel.
00:57:25.000They don't hate Israel just because it's filled with Jews.
00:57:28.000They also hate Israel because Israel, they believe, is an extension of the quote-unquote colonialist West.
00:57:32.000That is the real reason they hate Israel.
00:57:36.000So, again, disgusting and vile, but indicative of a new left-wing base that exists across the political boundaries that separate so many of our countries, but unites the left-wing base.
00:57:51.000Well, it says that something ugly is coming, something very ugly is coming.
00:57:53.000When you look at Zara Mamdani, I was spending the weekend doing some reading, and one of the books that I've been reading, I usually read several books at a time, is a memoir, famous memoir by a writer named Stefan Zweig, who's the author of a wide variety of books, some of them made into movies.
00:58:09.000He wrote a book called The World of Yesterday, talking about growing up in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and then living through two world wars and what it was like.
00:58:18.000And he has a section that really struck me, thinking about New York City, thinking about London, the major cities of the West these days.
00:58:27.000Now, for those who don't know their World War II history, Karl Luger pre-existed World War II by 40 years.
00:58:33.000Karl Luger was elected mayor of Vienna on an openly anti-Semitic platform.
00:58:38.000And Stefan Zweig was a resident of Vienna at the time.
00:58:41.000And he talks about how Vienna was a cosmopolitan city where people from all walks of life would go, they would enjoy, everybody had equal rights, and it all existed under the stability of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
00:58:53.000And then things started to fall apart.
00:58:55.000Karl Luger was elected in 1897 to become mayor of Vienna on an openly anti-Semitic platform.
00:59:00.000The reason he's an important historic figure is not because he was mayor of Vienna.
00:59:03.000The reason he's an important figure is because there was a young person living in Vienna at the time.
00:59:08.000His name was Adolf Hitler, and Adolf Hitler was a big admirer of Karl Luger.
00:59:13.000He saw his success and he decided he was going to emulate that success.
00:59:16.000And so Stefan Zweig talks about this, now writing retrospectively in 1942.
00:59:22.000He writes this, quote, the large department stores and mass production were the ruin of the bourgeois and the small employers and manufacturers by hand.
00:59:29.000An able and popular leader was Dr. Karl Luger, who mastered this unrest and worry and with the slogan, the little man must be helped, carried with him the entire small bourgeois and disgruntled middle class, whose envy of the wealthy was markedly less than the fear of sinking from its bourgeois status into the proletariat.
00:59:44.000It was exactly the same worry group, which Adolf Hitler later collected around him as his first substantial following.
00:59:49.000Karl Luger was also his prototype in another sense, in that he taught him the usefulness of the anti-Semitic catchword, which put an opponent before the eyes of the broad classes of the bourgeois, and at the same time, imperceptibly diverted their hatred from the great landed gentry and the feudal wealthy class.
01:00:03.000The entire vulgarization and brutalization of present-day politics, the horrible decline of our century, is demonstrated in the comparison of these two figures, Adolf Hitler and Luger.
01:00:12.000Karl Luger, with his soft blonde beard, was an imposing person.
01:00:14.000There shone Karl, the Viennese called him, the handsome Carl.
01:00:17.000He had been academically educated in an age that placed intellectual culture over all else.
01:00:23.000He could speak in a way that appealed to the people.
01:00:25.000He was vehement and witty, but even in the most heated speeches, or at least those that were thought to be heated at that time, he never overstepped the bounds of decency.
01:00:32.000His Streicher, Julius Streicher was the publicist for Hitler, a certain mechanic named Schneider, who operated with legends of ritual murder and similar vulgarities, was carefully held in check.
01:00:42.000Luger was modest and above reproach in his private life.
01:00:45.000He always maintained a certain chivalry toward his opponents.
01:00:49.000When his movement had finally captured the Viennese town council and he, after Emperor Francis Joseph, who detested the anti-Semitic tendency, had twice refused to sanction it, was appointed burgomaster, his city administration remained perfectly just and even typically democratic.
01:01:04.000Okay, he was accompanied at the time by the rise of another party called the Christian Social Party in Vienna, which was anchored in the industrial centers, and it made up for its unimportance by wild aggression and unbridled brutality.
01:01:19.000They engaged in actual violence attacks.
01:01:20.000The police, who because of the ancient privilege accorded to the university, were not allowed to enter the hall, had to look on inactively from without and see how these cowardly ruffians worked havoc and could do no more than carry off the wounded who were thrown bleeding down the steps into the street by these nationalist rowdies.
01:01:35.000So great was the abhorrence of the tragically weak and touchingly humane era for any violent tumult or the shedding of blood, the government retired in the face of the German national terror.
01:01:43.000So these two forces is what Stefan Zweig is talking about in his memoirs.
01:01:49.000The force of Karl Luger, genteel, anti-Semitic, playing on a feeling of the quote-unquote economically dispossessed who aren't quite poor.
01:01:57.000So lower middle class people, highly educated, who are seeking someone to blame.
01:02:03.000And so the anti-Semitism was a feature, not a bug.
01:02:06.000And the German National Party, which invaded the universities and did violence.
01:02:19.000Now, again, that doesn't mean that we're existing in 1897 Vienna.
01:02:23.000What it does mean is that when you look at what happened in Glastonbury, again, in the UK, which is a country that prosecutes people for tweets that they find inappropriate, and yet they have thousands of people chanting in unison, you want your country back, shut the F up.
01:02:39.000And also, death, death to the IDF, a call for murder of Israeli soldiers in solidarity with actual terrorists.
01:02:48.000If that is the future of the West, then the West is scaro-ed in a massive, massive way.
01:02:54.000Now, again, what's amazing about all of this is that we are now living in an era where the West should be in its ascendancy if it did not have to deal with this fifth column of people who hate their civilization, the scavengers, I've called them, this coalition of scavengers.
01:03:10.000And right now, the West is in its ascendancy, not in its decline.
01:03:15.000Over the weekend, President Trump championed a peace deal that he has now cut between Congo and Rwanda.
01:03:23.000Apparently, a peace agreement brokered by the White House to stem the bloodshed in Congo, where a militia allegedly backed by Rwanda occupies vast swaths of land, was signed in Washington, D.C. on Friday by officials of those two African nations.
01:03:35.000Here is President Trump explaining that he is brokering peace throughout the world.
01:03:41.000In a few short months, we've now achieved peace between India and Pakistan, Israel and Iran, and the DRC and Rwanda, and a couple of others also.
01:03:55.000Serbia, you know, was they were getting ready to go to war with a group I won't even mention because it didn't happen.
01:05:19.000Think from 52,000 feet, they hit the equivalent of a refrigerator door.
01:05:24.000They actually hit it right in the center, so it's much smaller than that.
01:05:28.000So, again, he's right about all of this.
01:05:30.000At a time when the West should be resurgent and on the upswing, instead, you do have America's major cities, New York City, LA, Chicago, being run by full-scale left-wing nutcases who are deeply ensconced with hatred for their own civilization.
01:05:51.000The biggest threat to the West is not external at this point.
01:05:54.000The biggest threat to the West is internal.
01:05:57.000The Red-Green Alliance, the Communist Socialists, and the Hamasniks coming together in hatred of their own civilization, which ties into July 4th.
01:06:09.000I hope you're going to have a wonderful Independence Day celebrating the foundation of the greatest country in the history of the world.
01:06:15.000And we should talk about a myth that has been purveyed about July 4th and about the United States in general.
01:06:20.000This, of course, is the 1619 myth that America was founded on slavery and that the Revolutionary War was fought for the preservation of slavery.
01:06:27.000There are so many lies that are told about our civilization, particularly about the foundation of our civilization, in order to somehow claim that our civilization should therefore be torn down.
01:06:35.000If you were to poll the morons at Glastonbury or the Democratic primary voters, Razor and Mamdani, about what they think of the United States, they would surely agree with the myth that America was founded on slavery.
01:06:47.000So first of all, let's take a moment to debunk this myth.
01:06:50.000A huge number of the founders overtly opposed slavery in principle.
01:06:54.000Even those who were hypocrites and held slaves themselves did not provide significant defenses of slavery.
01:06:58.000That included George Washington and Thomas Jefferson.
01:07:01.000Washington said, quote, there's not a man living who wishes more sincerely than I do to see a plan adopted for its abolition.
01:07:06.000Thomas Jefferson's original draft of the Declaration of Independence called the slave trade an excrable commerce and an affront against human nature itself.
01:07:14.000John Jay said, it is much to be wished that slavery may be abolished.
01:07:18.000To contend for our own liberty and to deny that blessing to others involves an inconsistency not to be excused.
01:07:23.000Of course, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, John Adams, very passionately, Alexander Hamilton spoke against slavery as well.
01:07:31.000Now, why was slavery included in the Constitution of the United States originally?
01:07:37.000The answer was because there were still slaveholding states in the United States.
01:07:41.000Many of the northern states were not slaveholding states, but the southern states were.
01:07:44.000And the question was, could you get together a coalition to defeat the British or could you not?
01:07:49.000And this was not a fight on behalf of promoting slavery.
01:07:53.000Slavery remained legal in the British Empire until 1833.
01:07:59.000So this was not a fight in which one side was pro-slavery and one side was anti-slavery.
01:08:05.000The leaders in America ideologically were not in favor of slavery.
01:08:09.000There was a practical on the ground consideration, which was that many of the southern states were reliant on slave labor.
01:08:15.000Again, that's an evil, not to be excused, but to claim that the Revolutionary War was about slavery is to be ignorant of history.
01:08:22.000And in fact, as soon as the revolution began, there were eight states that immediately came out and started abolishing slavery.
01:08:31.000Vermont, 1777, Pennsylvania, 1780, Massachusetts and New Hampshire, 1783, Rhode Island and Connecticut, 1784, New York, 1799, New Jersey, 1804.
01:08:42.000As Arthur Millick of the Heritage Foundation points out, Article 1, Section 9, Clause 1 of the Constitution says that Congress could prohibit the importation of slaves starting in 1808.
01:08:51.000The goal was to phase slavery out on the continent.
01:08:54.000On the first day that clause was operative, Congress passed and President Thomas Jefferson, famous slaveholder, signed that prohibition into law.
01:09:01.000In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance was passed, which outlawed slavery in the Northwest Territories.
01:09:06.000Seven years later, Congress made it illegal to build ships for the purpose of the slave trade.
01:09:10.000It's important to debunk some of these myths because those myths are then the basis for claiming that the West is uniquely evil.
01:09:16.000Slavery is a virtually universal human institution that is in fact evil, but was also universal.
01:09:22.000The question isn't whether the founding fathers were hypocrites about slavery.
01:09:27.000The question is, why did it take the West to end slavery?
01:09:30.000In fact, slavery is still practiced in many of the areas that are favorites of the Glastonbury crowd.
01:09:35.000Many of the places that they are claiming are havens of freedom that require less of a heavy Western hand are places that are still running slavery.
01:09:45.000A huge amount of the Middle East still engages in slavery.
01:09:47.000Not Israel, but many of its opponents.
01:09:53.000July 4th spells a clarion call for human freedom.
01:09:59.000And it has been seen that way by right-minded people ever since.
01:10:03.000This is why the very famous Frederick Douglass speech about what is 4th of July to the slave, it doesn't say that the 4th of July is bad.
01:10:10.000It says that the problem with the 4th of July is that the principles that the founding fathers sought to instill had not yet been realized.
01:10:16.000That is the right approach, a historically accurate and mature approach, as opposed to this leftist scumbag wing that simply suggests the West is uniquely evil when in reality, the West is uniquely good.
01:10:27.000All righty, coming up, we'll get to the Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth.
01:10:32.000The United States Navy has now renamed a Navy ship.